DPP v Almasi

JurisdictionIreland
CourtSupreme Court
JudgeMr Justice Peter Charleton
Judgment Date26 June 2020
Neutral Citation[2020] IESC 35
Docket Number[S.C. No. 196 of 2019],Supreme Court appeal number: S:AP:IE:2019:000196 Court of Appeal record number 2016/100 [2018] IECA 372 Central Criminal Court bill number: CCCDP00S1/2014
Date26 June 2020

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19 cases
  • DPP v Ward
    • Ireland
    • Court of Appeal (Ireland)
    • 27 June 2024
    ...on the Book of Evidence), discussed in People (DPP) v Lacy [2005] 2 I.R. 241, and People (DPP) v DO [2006] 3 I.R. 57 and DPP v. Almasi [2020] 3 I.R. 85. 73 . The appellant contends that the evidence was relevant in circumstances where the prosecution was offering evidence of a negative rela......
  • Director of Public Prosecutions v Jahiri
    • Ireland
    • Court of Appeal (Ireland)
    • 27 February 2024
    ...rights of defendants during trial, as well as case law on trial fairness and jury instructions, particularly citing People (DPP) v Almasi [2020] 3 IR 85. McCarthy J concluded that and upheld Jahiri’s murder and assault convictions, rejecting his claims of an unfair trial and evidentiary mis......
  • The People (at the suit of the DPP) v Clement Limen
    • Ireland
    • Supreme Court
    • 18 February 2021
    ...of individual pieces of evidence cannot be assessed in isolation from the entire factual matrix or by blinkered scrutiny; see The People (DPP) v Almasi [2020] IESC 35, [24–25]. Cole puts the matter well: relevance “denotes something which is variable and elastic: variable because a particu......
  • The Director of Public Prosecutions v Z. R
    • Ireland
    • Court of Appeal (Ireland)
    • 8 May 2025
    ...35 . The respondent relies upon the decisions of Charleton J in People (DPP) v Clement Limen [2021] ILRM 61, People (DPP) v Zoltan Almasi [2020] IESC 35, and the decision of this court in People (DPP) v Quirke [2021] IECA 36 . The respondent submits that the appellant takes no issue with th......
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4 books & journal articles
  • Towards A Presumption Of Victimhood: Possibilities For Re-Balancing The Criminal Process
    • Ireland
    • Irish Judicial Studies Journal No. 2-21, July 2021
    • 1 July 2021
    ...unreliability. But, a central focus, certainly in sexual violence cases, is prior email and text 134 The People (DPP) v Gilligan 162. 135 [2020] IESC 35. 136 Section 19A Criminal Evidence Act 1992, inserted by s 39 Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017; for discussion see O’Malley Report ......
  • Exploring rape conviction rates: consent, false allegations and legal obstacles
    • Ireland
    • Irish Judicial Studies Journal No. 2-20, July 2020
    • 1 July 2020
    ...to be asked’ or, in other words, that in the absence of such evidence ‘the jury might reasonably be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt 61 [2020] IESC 35 [23]-[29]. 62 ibid [24]. 63 See CM v HM Advocate (No 2) [2013] HCJAC 22, [28]; James Fitzjames Stephen, Digest of the Law of Evidence (12th......
  • Charleton & McDermott's Criminal Law and Evidence (2nd Edition)
    • Ireland
    • Hibernian Law Journal No. 20-2021, January 2021
    • 1 January 2021
    ...Criminal Law (Bloomsbury Professional, 1999) at page 1047. 6 he People (DPP) v McNamara [2020] IESC 34. 7 he People (DPP) v Almasi [2020] IESC 35. Charleton & McDermott’s Criminal Law and Evidence (2nd Edition) 185 I need not have been worried preparing to review this text, it is excellent.......
  • Book reviews - Charleton & McDermott’s Criminal Law and Evidence (2nd Edition)
    • Ireland
    • Hibernian Law Journal No. 20-2022, January 2022
    • 12 January 2022
    ...Bolger, Criminal Law (Bloomsbury Professional, 1999) at page 1047. The People (DPP) v McNamara [2020] IESC 34. The People (DPP) v Almasi [2020] IESC 35. Charleton & McDermott’s Criminal Law and Evidence (2nd I need not have been worried preparing to review this text, it is excellent. The bo......